There are several ways to use DBCP, and several documents describing them. One overview of how DBCP is put together is here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/api/overview-summary.html#overview_de scription Several code examples can be found here: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/commons-dbcp-1.0/docs/ Information on how to configure DBCP as a JNDI datasource within tomcat can be found here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html and especially here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-how to.html#Database%20Connection%20Pool%20(DBCP)%20Configurations Finally, the eyebrowse archives for commons-user: http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listName=commons-user@jakart a.apache.org&searchText=DBCP and commons-dev: http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listName=commons-dev@jakarta .apache.org&searchText=DBCP may be useful as well. (No doubt all those links are going to break across lines, but hopefully you'll be able to piece them together.) Feel free to ask more specific questions after you've had a chance to digest these a bit. Enjoy, - R.
